Sukha — The Flow State App for Focus and Healthy Productivity

Steven P.
A confession

I once opened my laptop to send an email and somehow ended up researching whether medieval monks had better attention spans than we do.

Steven P.Founder, Sukha

One wasted afternoon later, I set out to never say these phrases again:

  1. “Where did the day go?”
  2. “I'll get up early and finish tomorrow.”
  3. “I’ll get to that right after I…”
So I tried the focus apps…

Yes, $40/month for 5 “coworking apps” that were just group Zooms, 7 music generators, countless Pomodoro timers, phone jail locks… Some were fun, but none stuck for more than a week.

…and I read the books…

Now THESE were great — the Newports, Clears, Allens had great helpful stuff to say about the philosophy of focus. But what I wanted was something more concrete and easier… I wanted one button to press when the work was hard and my attention was drifting.

…and then a Flow State changed my life.

On an airplane with broken WiFi I had my “I'm in the Zone” moment . I got so much done, distractions were uninteresting to me… I felt great when we landed. Kotler had written about this, but suddenly it was real…and it changed how I thought about work.

I get a day's worth of work done by noon.Now I lecture on how to find your Flow State.

I've given over 400 talks on Flow States and
you're welcome to watch some of them here.

Your Focus Is Breaking — The Superhuman Blueprint Podcast
Blockbuster Focus with Steven Puri
The Flow State — Facing Disruption
Productivity Without Burnout with Steven Puri
The Talent Forge — The Creativity Advantage with Steven Puri
Finding Flow in Chaos
Creative Chats with Mike Brennan
High Performance Behind the Scene ft. Steven Puri
Flow State Secrets — Steven Puri, Founder of The Sukha Company
Your Best Idea Is One Hour Away — The Flow State Advantage
Hollywood Secrets for Focus & Productivity
Illustration of a brain in a flow state

I know, I know — what's a Flow State?

Flow is a measurable, almost magical brain state. Your prefrontal cortex that makes you self-conscious quiets down…
norepinephrine sharpens attention…
in short, focus stops feeling like effort.

People in flow get dramatically more done — not by working harder, but by stopping the fight with their own attention. Why didn’t someone tell me about this in college? grrrrr.

(want to go DEEEEEEP? I wrote this blog post)

I experimented on myself. The 3 things that reliably get me into flow are:

Music to block out the world

A to-do list and a timer to stay on track

A friendly voice keeping me off my phone and social media

Based on this,
my co-founder Tony & I designed Sukha:Yeah, you can tap/click the image

Screenshot of the Sukha focus app dashboard showing the productivity graph, task list, music player, and community panel

It works for us…and apparently a lot of others :)

Lenny Rachitsky calls Sukha a game changer: I got more done in the last 3 hours than I did all of yesterday!
Software Engineer: I didn't want to believe the hype at first, but Sukha's been amazing.
Medium Blogger: This app makes me happy to work. You only need one app to change your world around.
Founder of Four Minute Books: All the best strategies and tactics in one coherent solution. Sukha's the last productivity app you'll ever need.
Web Designer: When I'm creatively blocked, I open Sukha and find my flow again.
Melissa Wiley, novelist: If I try to fly solo while writing, I'm fighting distractions the whole time. If I fire up Sukha, I work.
Medium Blogger: Sukha is a haven of calm productivity.
Medium Blogger: My morning Sukha session is the highlight of my day.
Senior Project Manager: Having an AI assistant to organize my tasks is a game-changer.
Kent C. Dodds, Engineer: This thing is amazing.
Growth Engineer: The amount of focus I've experienced is like compressing 5 years into 400 days.
Sustainability Consultant: It's like a dream come true.
UI/UX Designer: This app really gets every feature you need to focus and get in the flow in one place — and it does it very well.
Tina, Novelist: I cannot believe how focused I get. Sukha changed how I did everything.
Jaryd Hoffman, Founder of How They Grow: It's been a game changer to knock out so much deep work. Sukha's become my most-used app.
Advertising Copywriter: I get more solid work done now from 9 to 12 than I used to all day.
Software Engineer: Life-changing for me.
Book Editor: I was struggling with brain fog, but fixed my productivity with Sukha.
Software Engineer: The best focus, work management, getting-into-the-flow app I have ever tried — and I've tried many!
CPA: The flow music helps me get through the endless emails and spreadsheets.
Executive Assistant: This is the only focus app I've ever been able to use successfully.
Art Director: Sukha's perfect combo of wellness, music, and community keeps my creativity flowing and my distractions at bay.
Professional Copywriter: If you're working alone from home like me, Sukha provides a sense of community and motivation which is invaluable.
Software Developer: Always struggling to focus until Sukha made it simple.
Software Engineer: Sukha gives me honest data about my time — not aspirational, not idealized, just real numbers. With that it becomes obvious what needs to change.
Brand Designer: Sukha is the task manager I didn't know I needed — and tribe, and soundtrack, and motivation.
Web Developer: The days I use Sukha end with a feeling of satisfaction.
Writer: Sukha has been a godsend for podcasting, writing and all the critical but easy-to-put-off things which move the needle on a meaningful life.
Novelist and Writing Teacher: Over the years I've tried just about every time management solution out there. Nothing has kept me engaged like Sukha — the difference is its point system.
Novelist and Writing Teacher: Over the years I've tried just about every time management solution out there. Nothing has kept me engaged like Sukha — the difference is its point system.
Writer: Sukha has been a godsend for podcasting, writing and all the critical but easy-to-put-off things which move the needle on a meaningful life.
Web Developer: The days I use Sukha end with a feeling of satisfaction.
Brand Designer: Sukha is the task manager I didn't know I needed — and tribe, and soundtrack, and motivation.
Software Engineer: Sukha gives me honest data about my time — not aspirational, not idealized, just real numbers. With that it becomes obvious what needs to change.
Software Developer: Always struggling to focus until Sukha made it simple.
Professional Copywriter: If you're working alone from home like me, Sukha provides a sense of community and motivation which is invaluable.
Art Director: Sukha's perfect combo of wellness, music, and community keeps my creativity flowing and my distractions at bay.
Executive Assistant: This is the only focus app I've ever been able to use successfully.
CPA: The flow music helps me get through the endless emails and spreadsheets.
Software Engineer: The best focus, work management, getting-into-the-flow app I have ever tried — and I've tried many!
Book Editor: I was struggling with brain fog, but fixed my productivity with Sukha.
Software Engineer: Life-changing for me.
Advertising Copywriter: I get more solid work done now from 9 to 12 than I used to all day.
Jaryd Hoffman, Founder of How They Grow: It's been a game changer to knock out so much deep work. Sukha's become my most-used app.
Tina, Novelist: I cannot believe how focused I get. Sukha changed how I did everything.
UI/UX Designer: This app really gets every feature you need to focus and get in the flow in one place — and it does it very well.
Sustainability Consultant: It's like a dream come true.
Growth Engineer: The amount of focus I've experienced is like compressing 5 years into 400 days.
Kent C. Dodds, Engineer: This thing is amazing.
Senior Project Manager: Having an AI assistant to organize my tasks is a game-changer.
Medium Blogger: My morning Sukha session is the highlight of my day.
Medium Blogger: Sukha is a haven of calm productivity.
Melissa Wiley, novelist: If I try to fly solo while writing, I'm fighting distractions the whole time. If I fire up Sukha, I work.
Web Designer: When I'm creatively blocked, I open Sukha and find my flow again.
Founder of Four Minute Books: All the best strategies and tactics in one coherent solution. Sukha's the last productivity app you'll ever need.
Medium Blogger: This app makes me happy to work. You only need one app to change your world around.
Software Engineer: I didn't want to believe the hype at first, but Sukha's been amazing.
Lenny Rachitsky calls Sukha a game changer: I got more done in the last 3 hours than I did all of yesterday!

My favorite thing any Sukha member
has ever said to me:

“I have two kinds of days now:

3pm I'm playing with my kids,
or
6pm I'm still at my desk wondering where the day went.

The difference is: did I open Sukha that morning.

So I pay for Sukha because my kids are not going to be 2 and 4 forever.”

Would you like a free trial?

  1. Get a task in mind
  2. Start your 3-day free trial
  3. Click the big play buttonSukha play button
  4. Sukha runs in the background while you work...

Love it? Membership is $20/mo or Lifetime for $400. (I'd start with the cheap one)

Frequently asked questions

Good grief — I'm tired just reading your list of things to click “START” on every time you want to work.

Here's the deal:
  • Sukha is a complete Flow State App, giving you all the tools to drop into flow, whereas most traditional tools are single-feature focus apps.
  • Single-feature apps (like standalone Pomodoro timers or website blockers) require you to manually build your own focus environment piece-by-piece.
  • Flow State apps like Sukha automatically integrate neuroscience-backed music, task management, distraction blocking, and AI coaching into one seamless system to trigger your flow state.

So: yes, you can assemble your own massive DIY set of tools and use a bunch of old-fashioned, one-feature apps to create a productivity system — that's what I tried. It became too much of a hassle to open and click 5 damn apps every time I wanted to work and I just stopped doing it.

Call me lazy (note to readers: I'm lazy. There. I said it.) but I just wanted one modern tool with a single “Play” button that had EVERYTHING I needed to get into my Flow State.

Is my goal to work all day? Heck no.

My goal is to frictionlessly drop “into the zone” so I can power through my stuff, feel great and play with my little son as much as possible before he grows up, asks me for the car keys and reminds me that I need to donate to his “Moon Colony Eco-Tourism Graduation Trip” fund (whatever happened to school bake sales?).
Hey, if you wanna play IT manager each time you sit down to work, go for it.

There are two ways to focus:
  1. Cobble together a bunch of old-school single-feature apps.
  2. Use a fully-featured, modern Flow State app.

Here's the real question YOU should ask yourself:
  • Are YOU worth it?
  • Do YOU value your time and brain energy?
  • Or do you wanna wake up 60 years old, still working and opening and clicking a bunch of apps every time you start work?


Wanna procrastinate more before making the right decision?
Here ya go:Sukha vs Coworking Apps
Sukha vs Focus Game Apps
Sukha vs Focus Music Apps
Sukha vs Pomodoro Timer Apps

Stop it. Just make a decision, dude. If you're fine with how your life is, just keep on keepin' on..

Most of our members are writers, developers and designers with a few CPA's and attorneys thrown in.

In short — Sukha is built for knowledge workers who need to sit down and do deep thinking. Our members just want to do their deep thinking more quickly and feel more energized afterwards.

If your day is spent on the phone or on Zoom or in meetings (think marketers, biz dev, salespeople, et al.), then Sukha is not for you. And boy does my heart weep for you..

Wanna read about specific use cases?Sukha for Writers
Sukha for Developers
Sukha for Designers

Nah. I hate apps that bombard you with ads and emails to buy their upsells and add-ons.

With Sukha, you get to try EVERYTHING for 3 days free. If you continue as a member, you get EVERY FEATURE.

No emails, no in-app banners, nothing.

Just you, focusing.

Yeah, Tony and I got you - we've been there. Just email me (Steven@TheSukha.co) and we'll figure something out for you. We made Sukha to help us all out, not to get rich. (but hey - if this buys me a new car someday - I'm not sayin' no to that).
You can cancel at any time and you'll owe no further money. Period. Tony and I don't collect paychecks for doing this - we just think the world needs more focus and more great things and less scrolling and double-tapping. Our members just pay so we can keep the servers on and keep growing.

Yes. Lots of stuff.

I'm kidding.

The world we live in is crazy distracting. You'd have to be blind and deaf not to be distracted by all the lights and sounds coming from your phone and laptop.

Sukha's here to help with that. Not by making you blind and deaf. By silencing all that noise for a golden hour or two every day.

No. I'm not a doctor. If you think you've got something going on, go get checked. I did — I was medically diagnosed with ADHD as an adult.

Didn't actually change much other than give me an 'ohhhhhhh THAT explains a lot' moment which was really funny for my wife to witness.

Boy do I feel you on this one.

I checked 41 focus websites out recently and all of them look like their marketing teams went into ChatGPT over lunch and typed: “My corporate overlord told me to make a new website...ideally use some bold, sans-serif font to make all the same promises as everyone else — ‘save time’ ‘focus better’ ‘get more done’ ‘etc.’ Oh — and if my boss likes it, ship it and tell her I did it.”

If Tony & I hadn't created Sukha, I don't know how I'd choose.

We really wanted Sukha to stand apart — to create a new category of complete Flow State apps. I know we'll get copied, but for now we're a category of 1.

With Sukha, we wanted a one-button-get-us-into-a-Flow-State, not a “open a music app, turn on desktop focus mode, silence our phone, open my task manager app and a timer app, etc.” every time we wanted to get in the Zone. (Remember: we're lazy)

Is the document in a language you understand? That's always a good place to start.

Ok, but seriously — that loop usually comes from a task that feels too big or too undefined for your brain to grab onto, so you retreat to something smaller and finishable (my word).

The escape to your phone is the symptom of a target your mind couldn't lock onto.

Shrinking the work to one clear, achievable next step is what stops the loop, which is one of the conditions Sukha is built around. Wanna break a big task down or make it more clearly defined? Ask your AI assistant. My peabrain likes having one simple thing to get done at a time.

Focus is far more trainable than the “I just have a goldfish brain” story suggests. Because a lot of modern distractibility is learned, it can be unlearned by repeatedly putting yourself in an environment where deep attention is the norm.
It won't happen in a day, and anyone promising an instant rewire is selling something — but the direction is absolutely changeable.
Boy, if you made it this far on this website and haven’t figured it out then I don’t write English real good or you aren’t listening, Larry.

Read this blog post — it lays it all out:“The Magic & Science of Flow States”
Flow has known entry conditions: a clearly defined task, a challenge that roughly matches your skill, and a stretch of protected time without interruption. The hard part is that the setup itself — organizing what to do, clearing distractions, getting started — is where most people stall out before flow ever begins. Sukha exists to collapse that setup, so the drop-in happens faster and with less friction.
Members find they finish work faster, feel less stressed, and enter a deeper flow state. The app is built to reduce procrastination, keep you on track, and make work feel lighter and more satisfying.

A lot of other apps have descriptive names that relate to their features: we “brick” your phone, we block websites “cold turkey,” etc.

Sure, we could have called this “Flow State App #9”...but really, Sukha is named after what we want for you - it means “happiness” in Sanskrit. It's not about a feature, it's about a feeling.

The happiness you feel from doing your work with ease and being back in control of your day. It feels amazing.

Sukha is free to try for three days, no commitment required, so you can test it on your actual work before deciding.

Getting started takes less than 10 seconds: click any gold “Start” button, sign up with your email, and you get the full Pro version for 3 days with unlimited sessions.

Doesn't work for you? Cancel and all your data are deleted. (yes, “data” is a plural noun. There's that copy editor instinct again. Same need to show off my grammar skills that annoys my wife over dinner. Go me.)

It helps to build a habit: the more you practice dropping into a flow state, the more easily you can access it, so start each workday by pressing Play before you begin.

Research shows it takes about 20 minutes to drop in, so try Sukha when you have a real task that'll take 30–60 minutes.

Then look up when you're done and notice how much you got through — and how you feel.

Yes.

Sukha runs in your browser on desktop or laptop - Windows, Mac and Chromebook. You don't need to download anything.

It also works smoothly alongside tools like Google Calendar, Asana, Slack, and Todoist.

Hells yes.

If you scrolled down this far, you're not looking for a focus app - you're procrastinating. You should be watching a comedy channel on YouTube. Or checking out our new webtoon: “Confessions of a Distracted Founder.”

Tony & I have both done laundry to avoid sending an email…we have minds that wander but still want to win.

We built Sukha because we wanted to feel unstoppable.

And we believe you can feel this way, too.

C'mon in. The water's warm.

Start flowing for free today